Tag: Random Stuff (Misc.)

Think you are web 2.0 savvy?  Yeah I thought I was too until I took this quiz which was pretty fun.  I scored 19 out of 34.  My question is how do you get the answers to the ones you don’t know?  Maybe I missed that?

Traffic to my site has been pretty solid recently but the comments have been lacking so I figured I would do a post which is sure to generate some debate.  I don’t think I have ever seen a UFO or an alien for that matter but what about all of you out there?  I generally don’t rule anything out but I do believe there probably are UFOs and I even have a theory about them.  I think UFOs are alien teenagers traveling where their parents told them not to.  Think about it, when you were younger there was always something you didn’t listen to your parents about right?  What if UFOs are nothing more than punk alien kids messing with us?  My fear is what happens when mommy and daddy come looking for them?  :)  Oh common you have to give me some creativity points for this one.

My mom sent me this website which is a birthday calculator.  Below are some of the results.

You were born on a Saturday

As of 12/10/2008 12:10:50 PM EST
You are 31 years old.
You are 372 months old.
You are 1,618 weeks old.
You are 11,323 days old.
You are 271,764 hours old.
You are 16,305,850 minutes old.
You are 978,351,050 seconds old.

Top songs of 1977

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 32 candles.

Those 32 candles produce 32 BTUs,
or 8,064 calories of heat (that’s only 8.0640 food Calories!).
You can boil 3.66 US ounces of water with that many candles.

There is a saying that life emulates art but being a self proclaimed geek and knowing next to nothing about art, my life has always seemed to emulate technology.  Have you ever stopped and thought about how great it would it be to have a TiVo for your life?  Do you buy cable TV and get all that life has to offer or are you satisfied with what life gives you over the airwaves?  If you have a TiVo would you fast forward ahead to see what happens or would you wait patiently through the commercials of life?  Would you maybe rewind and do something over again?  Maybe something in life is going really well and you want it to last so you put life into slow motion.  Perhaps something is not going well and you want it to stop.  Then there are times in life where you say you know what I think this show looks good I think I’ll hit play and give it a shot.  Sometimes life goes too fast and you want to hit the pause button to get caught up on other things or do somthing else.  Do you listen to TiVo’s recommendations or decide what is right for your own life?  At the end of the day our TiVo can only hold so many hours so make the most of it as hard drives don’t last forever and neither do our lives.  Get busy living or get busy dying but promise me you’ll TiVo it for me so I can see what happens.  :)

We went to a new Safeway in downtown Portland’s Pearl District this morning.  It is literally right across the street from Bridgeport Brewing which is pretty cool.  They have a parking garage above the store and a stairwell down from the garage gives you a nice view of the store (pictured above).  It was actually pretty fun because I ran into two people I used to work with almost three years ago now in the store (Kathy Tribe and Melanie Carrol).  >> More on the store